This report attempts to answer a number of questions for Humanities II Charter School in The Bronx, New York City.

Special Groups Recruitment

Question: If I want to to target and recruit ells, where would the most sensible places be to work on targeted recruitment?

One question posed was what strategies could be employed to better target ELL recruitment efforts. This report reviewed the data from NYC’s Department of Education on enrollment statistics in 32 districts, focusing on those in Manhattan and The Bronx.

Below is the distribution of English Language Learner recruitment among districts and schools in New York, focusing on Manhattan and the Bronx. The second plot highlights those schools recruiting ELL students at the 95th percentile relative to all schools in New York.

Limited English Proficiency Households

One angle for targetting recruitment efforts is examining the distribution of “limited English proficiency” households in New York. The American Community Survey tabulates limited English proficiency households by census tract, which are defined as households that do not solely speak English, in which at least one member is reported by the respondent to speak English “not very well.”

The below interactive map shows the percentage of limited English proficiency households per census tract in NYC, with school district boundaries overlaid.